Clothesline support



Aug. 16, 1927.

A. RUSSO ET AL CLOTHESLINEZSUPPORT Original Filed Oct. 29. 1924 ATTORNEYINVENTORS Patented Aug. 16, 1927.

warren STATES 1,639,275 PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT Russo AND zrosnrn RUSSO, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

GLOTI-IESLINE SUPPORT.

Application filed. October 29, 1924, Serial No. 748,496. Renewed June23, 1927.

This invention relates generally to supports for clotheslines, theinvention having for an object the provision of a simple and novelclothesline support of the type adapted to project the end of theclothesline inward through a window opening when the clothes are to behung on the line or removed therefrom.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawing, and to the appended claims in which thevarious novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Fig. 1 of the drawing is a side View showing a clothesline supported bymy improved device.

2 is a plan View, a portion of the window frame on which one of thebrackets is mounted being shown in horizontal section.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional View showing particularly the lockingelement for the outer bracket.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary horizontal sectional view taken on the line 44of Fig. 1.

Our improved device comprises a pair of brackets, one of which isadapted for mount ing on the frame of a window such as beside the windowaperture 11, while the other is adapted for mounting on a post, wall orother support 12 at a suitable distance from the first bracket thesebrackets carrying pulleys'over which the clothesline 13 is looped. Thebracket on the window frame comprises a plate 15 which is secured as bythe screws 16 to the said'window frame, and which is formed at one endwith a vertically disposed cylindrical or tubular element 17, that islocated in the window opening. Into this element extends a pintle 20which is rotatably supported by said element and has a laterallyextending arm 21 on its upper end. The free end of the arm has a pulleybracket 22 swiveled thereon and supporting a pulley 23. To lock the arm21 against rotation the element 17 and pintle 20 are formed withapertures 27 and 28 that are in registry with one another, while a pin29 may be freely suspended by a chain 30 from the bracket for insertionin these apertures.

The bracket on the support 12 comprises the angular frame having anoverhanging top portion to the end of which an arm 36 is pivoted as at37, this arm carrying a roller 38 on its free end, The arm 36 is urgedto vertical position by means of a coiled tension spring 39 connectedatopposite ends to the arm and the bracket 35, QQ2LCfilI1g stopelementsindicated generally at 40, limiting movement of the arm underthe influence of thespring.

Ne preferably provide a locking device for the arm 36 to lock it in itsvertical, or depressed-position. To this end the arm is made hollow anda plunger rod 43 is slidably mounted in the free, or lower end thereof,and is urged upward by an expansion spring 44 bearing against the saidrod.

From the upper end of the rod a ratchet toothed finger 45 projectslaterally through a longitudinal slot 46 in the arm and engages atoothed finger 47 fixed to the bracket 35. The pulley 38 is not mounteddirectly on the arm 36 but on the lower end of a lever arm 48 fulcrumedas at 49 to the main arm and having a short beak or projection 50 on itsupper end that extends inward through a slot 51 in the arm 36 and bearson a shouldered member or plunger 52 on the lower end of the rod 43.lVhen the clothesline is pulled with considerable force the pulley 38 isswung forward, the rod 43 is depressed, I and the arm 36 freed from theratchet locking element 47.

In the use of my improved device the parts normally occupy the positionshown in full lines. lVhen clothes are to be hung on the line thebracket arm 21 is swung inward through the window aperture, the pull ofthe line acting to swing the arm 36 upward, the parts assuming theposition shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. After the clothes have beenhung on the line the arm 21 is again swung outward, the spring 39returning the arm 36 to normal vertical position.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire toprotect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows 2--v 1. Aclothesline support comprising a frame, a main hollow arm pivoted tosaid frame closed at its lower end, a spring having one end fastened tosaid arm, and the other end to said frame, normally urging said arm to avertical position, said ma1n arm having a slot therein, a plunger and aplunger rod slidably mounted in said hollow arm, a spring lnterposedbetween said plunger and the lower end of said arm, nor mally urging theplunger and plunger rod upwards, a lever arm fulcrumed to the main armhaving a short beak extending above the plunger and holding said plungerdown against the action of said last-mentioned spring, a ratchet toothedfinger on said frame and a toothed finger on said plunger rod,

projecting through the slotand normally err-- gaging said ratchettoothed finger, and a pulley at the free end of said lever arm.

2. A clothesline support comprising a frame element having a ratchettoothed finger thereon, a main hollow arm pivoted to said frame closedat its lower end, a spring having one end fastened to said arm, and theother end to said frame, normally ur ing said arm to a verticalposition, coacting stop elements on the said frame and arm limiting themovement of the arm at the vertical position, a plunger and a plungerrod slidably mounted in said hollow arm, a spring in said hollow arm,normally urging the plunger upwards, a lever arm fulcrumed to the mainarm having a short beak extending above the plunger and holding saidplunger down against the action of the latter mentioned spring, aratchet toothed finger on said plunger rod, normally engaging said firstmentioned ratchet toothed finger, and a pulley at the free end of saidlever arm.

In testimony whereof we have affixed our signatures.

ALBERT RUSSO. JOSEPH Russo.

